In this short, Jad presents the electrifying sounds of three mind-bending musical acts: Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass, drummer Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and the one-and-only Reggie Watts. Their performances were recorded live at our Curious Sounds concert earlier this month in NYC.

Radiolab is a deeply musical show--from Jad's scoring and sound design, to the way we tell stories. So we decided to devote a night to three musical acts who all share a sense of musical adventure and curiosity--and the ability to rock the rafters of any stage they step on.

Genre-bending duo Buke & Gass kick the podcast off with a live performance of “Your Face Left Before You”...a raucous song featuring Arone Dyer's fierce vocals, bass ukulele, and "toe-bourine" (check out the picture below), and Aron Sanchez's driving, homemade guitar-bass. 

Up next, percussionist Glenn Kotche of Wilco performs “Monkey Chant,” his retelling of the ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana--using different instruments in his drum kit to convey different characters. And after explaining how he once wrote a string quartet on the drums, he plays one more composition: “Projections of What Might.”

And finally, Reggie Watts...musician, comedian, stand-up-surrealist-beat-boxer-force-of-nature...takes command of the stage.

More from Buke & Gass, Glenn Kotche, and Reggie Watts:

• Buke & Gass's latest album Riposte on iTunes
• Glenn's album Mobile on iTunes
• Reggie's first solo album, Simplified, on iTunes
• Reggie's latest album,  Why S*** So Crazy? [Deluxe Edition] [Explicit] [+video], on Amazon

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